Basement Core Shelter

Learn how to simply construct a radiation fallout shelter in your basement. This video features Cresson Kearny, author of Nuclear War Survival Skills.

[@benjaminkemer6428]

To whomever uploaded this video, thank you. Cresson Kearny is admirable in his honest efforts to inform people about how to work on a means that would save plenty of lives for people not directly in the fireball zone. His shelters also have a decent potential for say, tornado protection as well. They are worth looking at, even though he did a lot of his writing in the 70s and 80s.

[@lydiahoggarth]

I've read this man's nuclear survival guide numerous times just to have it on recall in case this ever happens. What he does is throw all the overly emotive "doom and gloom" handwringing out and approaches the problem from a scientific perspective. Even if you increase your probabilities of survival by 30-40%, it's worth it.

[@NMeyer0]

If anyone knew what he was talking about it when it came to radiation, it was this man. Get his book (available online) Nuclear War Survival Skills. It is from the Cold War era but it's basic message is helpful today.

[@BowmanFarm]

This is the first time I've seen and heard Cresson Kearny. I've got his Nuclear War Survival Skills.

[@RidleyReport]

very very rare for a govt. employee to become a hero of mine, but Kearny pulled it off.

[@johnsonpink6002]

Thank you. Gave me the idea to use make a tall heavy table covered/surrounded by 32packs od water, sand bags, Plywood coated with mylar blankets. Might be good to make a cheese cloth/moslin fabric filter sheet to throw over the top to help with any radioactive dust.

[@tgvas6045]

excellent video, could save a lot of lives Cresson Kearny was a gem

[@cognitivephonetician]

It is good to know that the fort-building skills we all developed as children will eventually someday enable us to survive a nuclear holocaust.

[@Geistjaeger]

Thank you for this public service, sir.

[@JamesSmith-gn9ou]

15 years ago, you still around?

[@DAILEYericCaryUSA]

WOW! What an original. This is so vintage. Indescribable. Thanks for posting this.

[@lydiahoggarth]

You can download and print Mr. Kearny's Nuclear Survival Guide free of charge. Just google it. Thank you Mr. Kearny.

[@SuburbanPreparedness]

I would rather use sandbags and some 2x4's and plywood. But yeah I get the gist of it. I have 500 sandbags, but no 2x4's or plywood, except for what the house is made of, but there are other materials, just something to support the sandbags above your head, you could use anything, shovels, brooms, limbs from outside.

[@salvinorinman]

Very Informative. Thank you.

[@vivianp5962]

Wow, who knew? Thanks for video. 👍

[@jamesleftwich1595]

I built a wall with plastic totes filled with rock and dirt it will protect 100% I hope

[@taurusfelis1412]

That is a great start! Great job and congratulations! Just one thing: When you say wall, I hope you mean above you and all around you. The Radiation won't just be coming in from the walls, it will also be coming down from the roof. If you are making an expedient shelter like the one in the video, I hope that you have tested the table to make sure that it will take the weight of the totes.

[@Posternal]

I've gotta try that sometime, my basement is full of boxes which are full of stuff we don't use.

[@wichitamountains]

Thank you. I appreciate this video.

[@jeepster4u2003]

@plojka1 They used to provide all of this information during the cold war, now, I don't know. Try the government publication office to see if there is anything.

[@rayesoflight]

loved it..we ned moreeeeeeee like it

[@merxen]

useful info for ppl that have basements

[@JamesSmith-gn9ou]

Who cut the cheese???

[@OffgridManiac]

i would like to post this video on my channel if its ok

[@SuburbanPreparedness]

He sounds just like I thought he would. I wish that someone would fill his shoes now that he's gone.

[@texasarcane7894]

The grand old man was part of the original core of Americans who knew what they were talking about. Most of the people you have heard speak on this subject since are the worst kinds of idiots. None of them will apologize to you if you discover listening to their advice was a mistake someday.

[@jessiematthews2432]

Its really him!

[@darrenwillett8536]

This seems a little desperate. Everything he's saying is accurate, but how are you supposed to spend several days in that cubbyhole? I believe the recommended shelter time for most situations was supposed to be something like two weeks? I don't know if it would be possible to spend two hours in that shelter.

[@gfrox6e]

Darren Willett lmao you could spend months in there if you don't have mental problems

[@wickedmuffin76]

Agreed, I would not want to spend two weeks under a table, although if the alternative was death maybe I would feel different.

[@mutahimuriithi]

@@wickedmuffin76 If such a time comes, one's gotta make do with what they have.

[@chrislassiter1894]

A couple of days and you can come out for brief periods.

[@SuburbanPreparedness]

I think I'd rather just die that sit under cardboard boxes. Is that a real woman? She looks so embarassed. Cresson Kearny is a great man and I greatly appreciate his book and all of his knowledge and I deeply respect him for his work and I give thanks to what he has done for us by providing us with this information.

[@chrislassiter1894]

You only have to stay under there for two days and most of the radiation will be gone.

[@TopGearrules]

cool

[@lostcause2137]

Somebody UH call the UH cops I UH think he is UH kidnapping that UH woman.

[@brandonmorgan9480]

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. However, it's funny AF.

[@dantyler1558]

So, we should all hunker down in our basements, surround ourselves with cardboard boxes lined with plastic bags filled with water? Good lord... wouldn't it just be easier to travel to russia and surrender? Scary how many readers say, "hey, this guy's great!"

[@kiralypeter88]

You don't understand. You will get baked in a couple seconds if you're out in the open. But let's say you're far enough and can walk outside for a couple hours: all the transportation will be out and people will stomp on you and kill you in that panic situation.

[@dantyler6907]

+Péter Király Hmmmm.... So it sounds like it would be a bad day. Another option is to get near the town center and hope for instant vaporization. But then, it would be impossible to continue to pay taxes. Even if our uncle steals everyrthing, those vaporized can only give whatever they have saved and invested stolen, there is vastly less to be taxed since the earners have been vaporized. But, no problem, the US has apparently found a way to borrow an ifinite amount of $.

[@quazimodo1973]

why is it scary that people are thankful for for lifesaving information that is scientifically proven. how do you recomend we all migrate to russia for a mass refugee surrender. seems overly cowardice and impractical to just surrender. i guess some people just arent survivors.

[@MrRalphF]

You don't get it. All out nuclear war with Russia is not that probable but a singular nuclear event (small missile exchange) is more likely and most importantly, very survivable, unless you are in the blast radius. We've been lemming'd into believing there would be no survivors, but that simply isn't true at all.